New Caledonian leaders decide on new president in snap election

Alcide Ponga, the leader of Rassemblement-Les Républicains – an anti-independence party of New Caledonia – was chosen on Wednesday as the new President of the nation in what is a further blow to the future hopes of the Kanak independence movement.

Ponga, the first Indigenous Kanak president…

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